Stephen Russell wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Peter > Cushing<[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> I am getting at a list of States in shipping. Why would you keep >>> hitting the table for the same non changing data 1500 times a day? >>> >>> >>> >> That's where an array would be better than using a non changing table. >> It is all loaded into memory so will be faster. >> >> > -------------------------- > > So you would public an array of states? Sounds good to me if you > didn't have collections available, pre vfp 8. > > You could use a cursor but that is still a file on disk somewhere. Arrays are nice and fast and memory is not really a problem for most machines. Sometimes the coding is a bit messy but if you create some global functions to do the lookups etc all that can be under the hood (bonnet for us UK'ers). I'd have a look at collections if you have them though.
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